2025-08-05

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. The law highlights th [...]

2025-08-05

What the White House Action Plan on AI gets right and wrong about bias

We may be destined to deal with AI bias no matter who’s in power. How the media can fight for unbiased AI on its own. [...]

2025-08-05

Watch AI models compete right now in Google's new Game Arena

As AI models increasingly ace conventional tests, researchers are looking for new benchmarking methods. Google is betting on games. [...]

2025-08-05

The voice data gold rush is on, but don’t fall for fool’s gold

There’s more to voice AI than hurriedly training it on unlicensed, poor-quality data. [...]

2025-08-05

How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra

WIRED talked with one of the most influential voices in computer science about the potential for AI and quantum to supercharge supercomputers. [...]

2025-08-05

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]

2025-08-05

Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: a web scraping war with big implications for AI

Cloudflare claims the AI startup is bypassing robots.txt restrictions to scrape content, potentially exposing Perplexity to lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and the BBC. [...]

2025-08-05

The Morning After: Could the next PlayStation have triple the power of the PS5?

Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive i [...]

2025-08-05

Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation

Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn't feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is [...]